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This means total contempt for proper moral values. In his
book Defeating Darwinism, Professor Phillip E. Johnson of the

University of California, Berkeley writes of the negative effects
that have appeared in society since the 1960s with the weaken-
ing of religious beliefs and the prevalence of a materialist world
view:
It would be roughly accurate to say that the 1960s marked the sec-
ond American Declaration of Independence, ... [the declaration of
some people's detachment] from God. One might expect far
reaching moral and legal consequences to follow from such a de-
claration, and so they did. 159

The molecular biologist Michael Denton states that it's im-
possible to analyze the troubles that left their mark on the 20th
century without considering Darwinism:
The twentieth century would be incomprehensible without the
Darwinian revolution. The social and political currents which

Phillip Johnson and his book
Defeating Darwinism

The Social Weapon: Darwinism